Five Rajasthan doctors booked for corruption

Jaipur, May 29 (IANS) The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Tuesday booked five senior Rajasthan government doctors for granting recognition to the nursing colleges which did not have standard facilities for the students, officials said.

The doctors are professors at the medical colleges in the state and had inspected these nursing colleges as designated members of the Rajasthan Nursing Council for granting them recognition, they added.

The authorities of five nursing colleges were also booked under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

According to ACB’s Inspector General Umesh Mishra, the agency had raided about 75 colleges in March on complaints of irregularities.

“It was found that many of these nursing colleges were granted recognition from the Rajasthan Nursing Council despite the fact that they did not have proper facilities,” said Mishra.

The officer added that each-inspection team consists of two designated members of the Rajasthan Nursing Council including a professor at a government medical college and a teacher of a government nursing institution.